Judge Vacates Baby Formula Trial Win For Abbott, Mead

By Celeste Bott

A Missouri judge on Thursday threw out a jury verdict that cleared Abbott Laboratories and Mead Johnson of liability in a joint trial over claims their baby formula causes a serious condition in preterm infants, saying a new trial is necessary because the defense "intentionally violated the court's orders and rulings by improperly introducing the inadmissible evidence to the jury, time after time."

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LG Unit Must Face Ga. Jury Over Exploding Battery Claims

By Chart Riggall

LG Chem America Inc., a subsidiary of Korea's LG Chem Ltd., can't toss a suit from a man who claims one of its lithium ion batteries exploded in his pocket, after a Georgia state court judge ruled the company may not have done enough to prevent its batteries being misused for vapes.

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Colo. Jury Rejects Claims Sterilization Co. Caused Cancer

By Thy Vo

A Colorado jury Friday morning rejected four women's claims that emissions from a Terumo BCT Inc. medical sterilization plant caused their cancer, finding after a six-week bellwether trial that the company was not negligent in how it handled emissions of a toxic sterilization chemical.

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Starbucks Ordered To Pay $50M In Burn Injury Case

By Cara Salvatore

A California state jury in Los Angeles awarded $50 million Friday to a delivery driver burned by hot water at a Starbucks drive-through window, roughly splitting the difference between the parties' suggested damages.

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Fort Worth's Unwieldy PFAS Suit Against Gov't, Cos. Gets Split

By Daniel Wilson

A Texas federal judge on Friday ruled that Fort Worth's $420.6 million suit seeking to hold the federal government and various manufacturers liable for PFAS contamination must be split into separate cases, or risk being too unwieldy and confusing for jurors.

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Antigua Clinic Accused Of Lying About 'Miracle' Cancer Cure

By Emily Field

A company called ExThera Medical Corp. has been sued in California federal court over a cure, backed by a billionaire investor, marketed for metastatic cancer but was actually a "dangerous medical experiment."

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Ford Bronco TM Suit Looks Under Hood Of Vintage Market

By Ivan Moreno

Ford Motor Co. is clashing with a company that restores Broncos from the 1960s and 1970s and retrofits the newer models that Ford started selling after a two-decade hiatus to make them look like older ones, setting up a battle over whether the iconic car company has done enough to maintain its rights over the Bronco mark in the intervening years.

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ExxonMobil Brings $14M Clean Air Act Suit To High Court

By Rae Ann Varona

ExxonMobil on Friday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn both a "radically divided" en banc Fifth Circuit's opinion upholding $14.25 million in air pollution penalties as well as a decades-old high court ruling concerning redressability, saying it was being made to pay penalties environmental group plaintiffs won't even receive.

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US Trustee Pans Pump Co.'s $9M Asbestos Insurance Deal

By Emily Lever

The U.S. Trustee's Office has challenged a proposed $9 million settlement between a Chapter 7 trustee for a bankrupt Connecticut pump company and two insurers, saying the agreement nonconsensually deprives third parties of their asbestos-related personal injury claims against the insurance carriers.

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Lewis Brisbois Adds Goldberg Segalla Litigation Quartet In SF

By Rose Krebs

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP announced Friday that it has added a four-attorney team in San Francisco from Goldberg Segalla LLP to bolster its efforts to advise clients in products liability, toxic torts and other matters.

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A Judge's Pointers For Adding Spice To Dry Legal Writing

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery shares a few key lessons about how to go against the grain of the legal writing tradition by adding color to bland judicial opinions, such as by telling a human story and injecting literary devices where possible.

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20 Law Firms Face EEOC Demands For DEI Employment Info

By Jack Karp

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has written to 20 law firms seeking information about their diversity, equity and inclusion-related employment practices, the agency announced Monday.

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Dentons Merger Brings Firm To The Turks And Caicos

By Andrea Keckley

Dentons says it is set to become the first global law firm to establish a presence in the Turks and Caicos, announcing Monday that it plans to combine with island firm Griffiths & Partners.

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Pillsbury Lands 14 Int'l Trade Attys From Curtis

By Rose Krebs

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced Monday that it has added a 14-attorney team, including three partners, from Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP to strengthen its international trade practice and help clients navigate tariffs, supply chains and other issues.

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Judge Questions DOJ Timing Of Deportations After Injunction

By Britain Eakin

U.S. Chief District Judge James Boasberg admonished the Trump administration Monday for its seeming noncompliance with an oral order to turn around flights carrying Venezuelans who were deported under a presidential proclamation invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

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Judge Ikuta's Sr. Status Plans Give Trump 9th Circ. Opening

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Circuit Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta of the Ninth Circuit will be taking semi-retired status upon confirmation of her successor, a court representative confirmed to Law360 on Monday.

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DC Judge Holds Off Ruling On Immigration Legal Aid Funds

By Ali Sullivan

A D.C. federal judge on Monday held off on deciding whether to order the Trump administration to continue funding programs that give noncitizens access to legal aid and information, as requested in a lawsuit from nonprofit groups, noting that other court orders in separate lawsuits have mandated that federal funds keep flowing.

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Houston Midwife Arrested In Texas' 1st Criminal Abortion Case

By Catherine Marfin

A Houston-area midwife has been arrested after an investigation by the Texas attorney general's office for allegedly providing illegal abortions, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday, the first such criminal charges brought since the state issued its near-total abortion ban.

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Littler Elects 6 New Members To Board Of Directors

By Tracey Read

Littler Mendelson PC has elected six new members to its 19-member, 2025 board of directors, the management-side employment and labor law firm announced Monday.

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Ex-Seton Hall Law Worker Avoids Jail In Embezzlement Case

By Carla Baranauckas

A former employee of Seton Hall University School of Law was sentenced Monday to two years of probation with one year of electronic monitoring for her guilty plea in an embezzlement scheme that defrauded the school of $1.3 million over 13 years.

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Seeger Weiss Atty Tapped To Lead Depo-Provera Plaintiffs

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Sunday selected Christopher Seeger of Seeger Weiss LLP to lead the team representing plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation claiming Pfizer Inc. failed to adequately warn patients and doctors about the risk of brain tumors associated with the hormonal contraceptive drug Depo-Provera.

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